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Spain Travel Podcast with Mateo Herrera

Mateo Herrera

Travelling in Spain means moving between a dry, hot plateau and a greener coast, between dense city life and emptied inland villages. This podcast follows a single narrator settling in Spain for years at a time, learning each place by living in it rather than passing through. It treats travel as ordinary knowledge, built from repeated visits and local daily rhythms.

The route includes Madrid and the Pyrenees, but it also reaches Galicia's Atlantic estuaries, the Ebro valley, and Extremadura's slow towns. Each place is chosen because it connects to the next, so the movement between them makes geographical sense. The show does not pretend to cover all of Spain; it follows one person's inhabited route through its regions.

The episodes move with the seasons, returning to the same streets and paths as they change. Summer heat stays in the interior while winter damp gathers along the coasts, and a town seen in December is not the same town in June. Knowing a place properly takes that repetition and time.

Mateo Herrera lives in Spain and stays for two years, moving between cities, coastlines and smaller towns on a route that follows the seasons. Not a week-long visit — Mateo is there in every kind of weather, working out where to eat on an ordinary Tuesday, which train to take, what a festival actually feels like from the pavement.

A new episode arrives every day. Each one is short and specific: one neighbourhood, one journey, one meal, one museum worth the detour — with the practical detail that matters. What it costs. When it closes. Whether the queue is worth it. What to do when it rains. Every episode carries a full transcript and chapter markers.

Part of Paris2Tokyo — one show for each of the world's hundred most-visited countries. Made for travelers, wherever you are going next.

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  • Yesterday · 8 min

    Boqueria, Bureaucracy, and the August Exodus

    Mateo tackles the NIE paperwork trail, discovers the rhythm of Barcelona's August exodus, and navigates the city's summer festival crowds. From market stalls to metro closures, he shares the practical costs and cultural notes of settling in during the ho…

  • Monday · 9 min

    The Metro in August and a Bridge Too Far

    Mateo tackles the city's August metro closures, gets lost in the maze of Gràcia, and finds a quiet plaza perfect for a working night. He also checks in on the Circuit Festival crowds and plans for the eclipse.

  • Sunday · 8 min

    Paperwork, Banks and the Art of the Queue

    Mateo tackles round two of Spanish bureaucracy: a bank appointment, a missing document, and the unexpected social rules of the waiting room. Then he escapes into the quiet, shaded corners of the Gothic Quarter and a late-afternoon café where the city's r…

  • Saturday · 9 min

    First Steps in an Empty August City

    Mateo lands in Barcelona on the first of August and wades straight into the chaos of residency paperwork, a city half-closed for summer, and the ritual of the first market run. A practical, sweaty and slightly sunstruck guide to arriving when everyone el…